Russia's Putin tells Japan's Abe: Let's sign peace deal this year

Leticia Stanley |Thursday, September 13, 2018

Xi, Putin think big on lifting Russia’s ‘far east’

Soviet forces occupied the islands at the end of World War II, and the territorial dispute has prevented Moscow and Tokyo from formally ending hostilities in the war. "We have been negotiating for 70 years", Putin said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Tuesday in Vladivostok - a coastal city in Russia's resource-rich "far east" - to discuss plans with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for developing the region.

"There are deep and complex changes underway in the global situation, the politics of force, unilateral approaches and protectionism are rearing their head", Xi told the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) on Wednesday. "Let's conclude a peace agreement, not now but by year's end without any preconditions", Putin said, with the audience breaking into applause.

The proposal means that resolving the bilateral issue on the northern territories would effectively be put aside and a conclusion of the peace treaty would happen first.

In his remarks on September 12, Putin said concluding a pact would create a better atmosphere and enable Russian Federation and Japan to "continue to resolve all outstanding issues like friends".

During the talks in Vladivostok on Wednesday, Putin and Abe discussed the idea of building a railway bridge from Sakhalin to mainland Russian Federation, which could later be extended to the Kuril Islands and Japan. "We are both fully aware that it will not be easy".

With kitchen aprons on, Putin and Xi fried traditional Russian pancakes - also known as bliny - and tried them with seafood delicacies including red and black caviar.

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